Burlington County

A New Jersey man was held in the Burlington County Jail Monday after he was accused of fatally shooting his cousin during an argument

A janitor at a Staten Island, New York, hospital faces prison after he admitted trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a teenager, who turned out to be a police detective. John Emilio, 43, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to endanger the welfare of children. Under terms of a plea agreement with Burlington County prosecutors, he will face…

A judge sentenced a New Jersey man to five years in prison for shooting his neighbor’s dog with an air rifle, causing the animal to be euthanized. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement with William Stroemel, 65, of Maple Shade, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. Stroemel pleaded guilty in April to possession of a weapon...

A 12-year-old boy from Lumberton, New Jersey, who was missing for nearly 17 hours has been found safe.

Prosecutors say a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the beating death of his mother, whose body was found in a car left for weeks in the parking lot of the pizza shop where he worked as a deliveryman. Burlington County prosecutors said 54-year-old Brian Templeton entered the plea Thursday in exchange for a recommendation of…

Rocks have smashed through vehicles on multiple occasions on the same road in Medford and Medford Lakes. On Wednesday, police arrested a boy after the latest car was struck.

A prosecutor said police went to the home for a wellness check and discovered the woman with blood on her arm and the victim on a tarp with a gunshot wound, and found what he called the “beginning of a grave”

The woman allegedly spent the money on rent, car loan payments, credit card bills, hundreds of online purchases and her wedding at a venue in Burlington County

A New Jersey woman is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the church she volunteered at in order to pay for her wedding, rent and other bills.

A 4-year-old boy died after he was found in a New Jersey home with a gunshot wound believed to have been self-inflicted, authorities said. Police and emergency medical personnel were called to a home on Maricopa Trail in the Country Lakes section of Pemberton Township shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, the Burlington County prosecutor’s office said. The boy was...

A South Jersey doctor is accused of supplying more than a million doses of opioids to multiple patients over the course of three years, according to the Burlington County prosecutor’s office.

A police detective accused of sexually assaulting two children has pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault.

A New Jersey mother who passed out while intoxicated and suffocated her toddler son is now headed to prison.

A federal jury has deadlocked in the trial of a white former police chief charged with a hate crime against a handcuffed black suspect.

A white former New Jersey police chief accused of slamming a handcuffed black man’s head into a doorjamb three years ago has been convicted of lying to the FBI

Authorities allege that 62-year-old Frank Nucera, former Bordentown Township police chief, approached the 18-year-old prisoner from behind in September 2016 and smashed his head into a doorjamb.

A jury resumes deliberations Monday in the federal trial of a white former New Jersey police chief accused of slamming a handcuffed black man’s head into a doorjamb three years ago.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for the federal trial of a white former New Jersey police chief accused of slamming a handcuffed black man’s head into a doorjamb.

A former South Jersey high school football coach has been indicted for allegedly having sex with an underage girl on campus.

Herpetologists found a rare, two-headed timber rattlesnake in New Jersey.